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Then Uncle Robert said: "Now we'll go out to Elmbridge as quick as we can skip, but first we must pick up Ethelyn, whom I left in the waiting-room." "Oh, is Ethelyn here?" cried Patty. "I am so glad, I'm just crazy to see her." Apparently Ethelyn was crazy too, for she flew at her cousin as soon as she entered the door. "You dear thing!" she exclaimed, "I'm so delighted to see you.
The train stopped at Elmbridge, and without waiting for her father, Ethelyn piloted Patty off the car. "Here's our carriage," she said, as a handsome pair of horses with jingling chains came prancing up. A footman in livery handed the young ladies in, and Patty felt as if she had come among very grand people indeed. While they waited for Mr. St.
It had passed through Elmbridge about an hour before, but being an express train, it made no stop at such small places. So Mr. St. Clair had arranged to meet Patty at Jersey City and take her back home with him. Patty recognized her uncle as soon as he entered the car, and ran to greet him. "Howdy, Uncle Robert," she said, in her pretty southern way, "are you looking for me?"
This made merry Patty laugh, but she offered no objection to her aunt's decision, and promised to sign her name Patricia whenever she wrote it, and to make no further use of the despised nickname while staying at Villa Rosa. Ethelyn was pleased too, at the change. "Oh," she said, "now your name is as pretty as mine and Florelle's, and we have the prettiest names in Elmbridge.
Clair, who was giving the checks to the baggage-master, Patty admired the pretty little station of rough gray stone, and the neatly kept grounds and paths all about it. "Yes, they are pretty," assented Ethelyn, "but just wait till you see our grounds. We have the finest place in Elmbridge. In summer it's just lovely." Then Mr. St.
Many of these were from the Elmbridge young people, while several from Richmond included a beauty from her father, and a pretty one from Clara Hayden. Although the cousins had varying tastes, they had become very good friends, and both felt sad when the day came for Patty to leave Villa Rosa.
It made fine sleighing, for the roads were in just the right condition and as the weather was clear and cold there was good prospect of many days' fun. Uncle Robert, always ready to give the young people a good time, instigated a sleighing parade, in which all the society people of Elmbridge were invited to join. It was to be a grand affair.
I shall invite all my cousins from Elmbridge and Philadelphia and Boston and we'll have a grand general reunion that will be most beautiful." "You'll invite your aunts and uncles, too?" said Mr. Fairfield. "Why, I don't see how we'd have room for so many," said Patty. "And, of course," went on her father, "you'd invite the whole Elliott family.
She became a favorite with the Elmbridge boys and girls, and her unfailing good nature kept her from quarreling with her cousins though she was often sorely tried by them. Lessons were a very uncertain quantity. Sometimes there would be none at all for a week or two weeks, and then perhaps school would keep regularly for a few days, only to be followed by another interruption.
To which Ethelyn replied, still crossly, "There'll be no next time for me." Patty was not sorry when her Elmbridge cousins concluded their visit, and the evening after their departure she sat on the veranda with her father, talking about them.
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